Sunday, March 23, 2014

Vote for Fred Klonsky as Your Illinois Retired Delegate to the National Education Association Representative Assembly

Though some IEA officials have recently equated disagreement with decisions made by the IEA with being anti-union, Fred Klonsky is running as a delegate
to the NEA-RA, nonetheless.

If you agree with Fred Klonsky that debate is essential and beneficial for a democratic society, especially for unions; if you believe that Senate Bill 7, PERA, Common Core, and Charter Schools are egregious blunders; if you believe in Fred Klonsky's untiring activism and in his conviction that to bargain away constitutionally-guaranteed benefits and rights is a dangerous precedent to set (that what public employees and retirees have already earned is non-negotiable with the current liars and thieves of the Illinois General Assembly), please Vote
for Fred Klonsky as your Illinois Retired Delegate to the National Education
Association Representative Assembly and perhaps only for him. He is #19 on the ballot.

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